ragamuffin
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Today I finished up the last of the three builds that I've been working on!
The first build was the Simulcast. Populating the board went fine, but I hadn't boxed a pedal in a long time so I made a lot of mistakes. First try I wired the power backwards, jack input/output and grounds backwards, and the LED from Tayda had the flat on the wrong side so I wired that backwards too! But I sorted it all out eventually. Pedal sounds great! This might be a new fixture on my board.
Next was the Crunch Captain Deluxe which went smoothly for the most part other than two things; drilled the toggle switch holes a bit bit and I'll have to get some dress nuts for them, and my DC jack was too long and almost didn't fit with the PCB in there, so I had to bend back the tabs, but all worked out. Pedal has a plethora of nice chunky crunch tones! Great for 80's hard rock sounds! My brother has an original MI Crunchbox that I have played, so I kind of knew what to expect.
Last to be finished was the Titania2, as I forgot to buy one of the caps (or rather, I used the cap in my Simulcast and only bought one). Thanks to @Robert for sending me a cap! Really thankful for the knowledgable community here. On this pedal I decided to use a pimpin' jewel light in homage to Spaceman Effects. I drilled a hole big enough for the jewel, glued it in with a little E6000, and wired up the led under the board with some extension wires to be under the jewel. I think it looks pretty neat!
I'm quite happy with all three pedals, and I'll definitely be doing more in the future.
Again thanks to @Robert for the 1nF cap that I needed, and also thanks to @PedalBuilder for selling me the transistors that I used for the Simulcast and Titania2!
The first build was the Simulcast. Populating the board went fine, but I hadn't boxed a pedal in a long time so I made a lot of mistakes. First try I wired the power backwards, jack input/output and grounds backwards, and the LED from Tayda had the flat on the wrong side so I wired that backwards too! But I sorted it all out eventually. Pedal sounds great! This might be a new fixture on my board.
Next was the Crunch Captain Deluxe which went smoothly for the most part other than two things; drilled the toggle switch holes a bit bit and I'll have to get some dress nuts for them, and my DC jack was too long and almost didn't fit with the PCB in there, so I had to bend back the tabs, but all worked out. Pedal has a plethora of nice chunky crunch tones! Great for 80's hard rock sounds! My brother has an original MI Crunchbox that I have played, so I kind of knew what to expect.
Last to be finished was the Titania2, as I forgot to buy one of the caps (or rather, I used the cap in my Simulcast and only bought one). Thanks to @Robert for sending me a cap! Really thankful for the knowledgable community here. On this pedal I decided to use a pimpin' jewel light in homage to Spaceman Effects. I drilled a hole big enough for the jewel, glued it in with a little E6000, and wired up the led under the board with some extension wires to be under the jewel. I think it looks pretty neat!
I'm quite happy with all three pedals, and I'll definitely be doing more in the future.
Again thanks to @Robert for the 1nF cap that I needed, and also thanks to @PedalBuilder for selling me the transistors that I used for the Simulcast and Titania2!
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